The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon Quotes

“When you want to say what is in your heart you can’t say it because, as the words take shape in your head, you find yourself despising them as clichés.”
― R.F. Delderfield, The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon

“chinless girl crept in with coffee, laid the tray on the desk like an apprentice priestess tending an altar and crept out again.”
― R.F. Delderfield, The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon

“Café coffee? Not on your life!’ said the Clerk. ‘I’ve got the best coffee-maker in the West. She’s a dreadful typist but I keep her on for elevenses. How about it then?”
― R.F. Delderfield, The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon

“He remembers this and will never forget it, not even when he is an old, old man, dying in some impersonal nursing home, watched by impersonal mutes.”
― R.F. Delderfield, The Spring Madness of Mr Sermon